about | Ellen’s Writing
From 2023-2025, I worked on ml car stuff at comma.ai and Tesla FSD. At comma.ai I fell in love with the culture of hacking cars and making open-source software people actually use and love. At Tesla I had a lot of fun I shipping models to millions of users and getting to launch Robotaxi in Austin! Talk to me about: Some other cool things I’ve done: 10+ years of competitive saber fencing (this was a huge part of my life - at my peak won 5th place in Romania world cup for U17 age group!) and fenced for Stanford’s Div I team (2024-2025), spent a summer learning to fly (40+ hours on Cessna 172N, but PPL is currently on pause…), studied oil painting at an art institute in Florence and spoke poor Italian (seeing the world outside the silicon valley bubble :P), won a hackathon with friends and got to fly a R22 around SF (yes I am slowly collecting all the modes of transport…), getting into blue vs red teaming and cyber stuff in high school and being a part of the CyberPatriot XIII national ch